How to find yourself in Fra Angelico’s All Saints painting

Fr. Michael Rennier describes the lower panels of an early altarpiece by Fra Angelico located in the church of the Dominican convent near St. Mark’s in Florence.

The painting features the Blessed Virgin surrounded by St. Peter and several Dominican saints. While the main panel contains these figures, the smaller lower panels serve as a point of interest for meditation on All Saints Day.

Fra Angelico lived and painted at the conventual chapel of St. Mark’s, where simple, iconographic paintings remain on the walls of the monks' cells.